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Lightning Victim Returns For Concert Save Email Print
Not deterred by scary experience a year ago
Posted: 3:35 PM Jul 2, 2005
Last Updated: 7:06 PM Jul 2, 2005

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An Omaha teen struck by lightning at last year's scheduled Memorial Park concert and fireworks display returned to the scene Friday night for this year's show.

More than 50,000 people rocked to the music of Three Dog Night and the Doobie Brothers during the annual Commercial Federal Fourth of July Celebration, then enjoyed the Grucci fireworks which went off without a hitch.

It was much different a year ago when the performance had to be cancelled due to storms. The fireworks went off in the daylight, then Mother Nature provided her own and 18-year-old Hope Thompson was hit by lightning. Now a sophomore at North Park University in Chicago, she's doing well, but is still bothered by storms. "To tell the truth, I still crawl under my covers and cry when it storms, I do. I go to school in Chicago and we have storms there and I'm just like, not going to class today, I'm staying in my dorm room."

Thompson said she doesn't remember much about what happened that night one year ago, but said she had to go to this year's event. It's a tradition and she wanted to have fun with her family.

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